The article discusses the findings of research on the prevalence of technophobia amongst older adults in Ireland. The study was conducted using questionnaires which consisted of computer anxiety rating scale form C (CARS-C), ...

This paper examines the implications for research on the diffusion of innovations (DOI) arising from a growing body of literature in two related fields. The first area concerns the debate on the role of regional and national ...

Time is one of the most important factors dominating agile software development processes in distributed settings. Effective time management helps agile teams to plan and monitor the work to be performed, ...

Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in ...

New Public Management (NPM) is a set of private sector management principles which have had a significant impact in the shaping of policy reform agendas in many governments. This article seeks to understand the influence ...

eGovernment promises more efficient services and a more responsive government. Despite substantial investment, increasing failure rates have prompted critics to argue that policy makers are not achieving this vision. ...

This paper discusses an innovative focus group approach used to
study an Information Systems Development (ISD) environment. The research
had to cope with the application of a broad framework, untested in practice,
seeking ...

This paper aims at examining how firms create and capture value with open source software (OSS).
OSS is seen as an excellent exemplar of both peer production and open innovation. Nevertheless, the
use of OSS as a form ...

Collaborative Learning (CL) is increasingly being used in Distance Education (DE), as it has been
identified as an effective solution to known weaknesses such as high average rates of dropout and low
quality of learning ...

This report summarizes the key findings from a workshop at the 10th International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering (XP2009) called "Agile Research" A 7-Year Retrospective", ...

Speech enabled business applications are characterized by complex implementations
that bring together language processing technologies, applications
development, and end-user psychology. Resilience is critical to ...